--- title: "✍️Written interview with DAILY artist @endless_mazin Fellowship is proud to present \"Morphland..." canonical_url: "https://typefully.com/t/lASfChW" markdown_url: "https://typefully.com/t/lASfChW.md" agent_guide_url: "https://typefully.com/ai-agents.md" post_delimiter: "***" robots: noindex source: typefully_shared_draft share_id: "lASfChW" --- ✍️Written interview with DAILY artist @endless_mazin Fellowship is proud to present "Morphland Abstractions", a solo exhibition by Mazin on DAILY. Mazin is a pioneering digital artist who has spent two decades mastering glitch aesthetics before revolutionizing his practice through AI. He creates hypnotic, psychedelic looping GIFs where each pixel moves as if it has its own consciousness. Beyond the visual chaos lies a deeper worldbuilding logic: entire universes shaped by invisible forces. For Mazin, glitch art and AI are two sides of the same coin, tools for exploring how digital systems break down and reveal something strange and beautiful. Read the full interview below to learn more about his artistic journey, creative process, and the evolving vision behind his work. ![10.gif](https://d3e0luujhwn38u.cloudfront.net/original/img/original/24584/e94242fb-357a-439b-97c7-0c8ccb2824a2.gif) *** 1. Who is Mazin Tell us about yourself, your background and how you started creating art? I was a glitch art geek, and that passion eventually led me to become an artist. About fifteen years ago, I discovered glitch art as a hobby. My journey began with simple apps and gradually evolved as I started exploring old-school glitch techniques such as databending, sonification, ROM corruption, hex editing, and analog video synth glitching. A few years ago, I left my long-term job and began working as a full-time artist. Today, I focus on video art, generative art, and AI-based creative practices. ![1.gif](https://d3e0luujhwn38u.cloudfront.net/original/img/original/24584/67fb9264-3851-48d8-b358-6e3c14cd45f8.gif) *** 2. When and how did you first start experimenting with AI in your art? How has AI evolved your artistic process? When I first encountered AI, it gave me the same excitement I felt years ago when I discovered glitch art. The unpredictability and sense of surprise I loved in glitch techniques suddenly appeared again through AI tools. That inspired me to recreate many of the glitch aesthetics I was passionate about using AI. I began experimenting with ways to reproduce the unique qualities of datamoshing, databending, and analog glitch effects through AI. Eventually, I started combining traditional glitch techniques with AI-generated imagery and animation. I create my own animations with AI and then apply my own effects and processing methods on top. The models I train carry the spirit of old-school glitch aesthetics and often follow movement patterns inspired by classic glitch processes. Since I have spent years working with nearly every major glitch technique, I also use my extensive archive as training material for my models. Glitch art already offers endless experimentation, and when combined with AI, it feels like an infinite rabbit hole. Exploring that space is something I truly enjoy. ![17.gif](https://d3e0luujhwn38u.cloudfront.net/original/img/original/24584/87ed148a-2d4a-4dec-a6af-4a197456eb3b.gif) *** 3. What drew you to exploring surreal landscape anomalies specifically? Are you interested in landscapes as a subject, or are landscapes simply the vehicle through which you investigate glitch and digital distortion? My interest in landscapes comes from the feeling of discovering complexity hidden within simplicity. More importantly, landscapes create a sense of exploration and the impression that the scene has a history behind it. I am motivated by the idea that each piece belongs to a larger collective world and narrative. The landscapes I create are parts of dimensions and universes that I continue to develop. For example, I have designed entire worlds based on specific color palettes and continue expanding their context. The AI models I work with are highly experimental and custom-built. Unlike conventional AI models, every pixel in these works seems to move according to its own algorithmic logic. When I discovered this behavior, it fascinated me. I felt it could become especially powerful within complex landscape compositions. The tendency of each visual cell to move independently, as if it possesses its own intention or consciousness, gives me the opportunity to create worlds that feel genuinely alive. ![14.gif](https://d3e0luujhwn38u.cloudfront.net/original/img/original/24584/30f2478a-2339-4c67-b835-b38dc2f52f4f.gif) *** 4. The visual language of "Morphland Abstractions" is intensely colorful. Is the intensity of color itself part of the hallucinatory effect, or does it serve a different function? Tell us more about the color palette in the series. In previous series such as *Phantasmagoria*, I built a gothic fantasy universe using colder color palettes. I explored similar tones in my industrial-themed series *Ditherium Dei*. Collections like *Synchronized Realm* and *Unstable Reality* leaned toward palettes inspired by analog aesthetics, while *Morphogenesis* employed limited palettes of two or three colors that I called “Cartaography Terrascapes.” With *Morphland Abstractions*, I deliberately moved in a much more colorful direction. I wanted to push abstraction to its limits through both movement patterns and color relationships, creating a stronger hallucinatory atmosphere. At the same time, anomalies became the central theme of the series. These are movements and behaviors that feel unnatural, reflecting the experimental nature of AI itself. Their strange, unsettling qualities create both discomfort and curiosity. They evoke a sense of discovery, which has always been one of the main motivations behind my work. ![20.gif](https://d3e0luujhwn38u.cloudfront.net/original/img/original/24584/89537b72-a8e9-4f0f-a04c-bf8ce7897b29.gif) *** 5. Your gifs contain recognizable elements but they're profoundly distorted. Tell us about how do you play between legibility and abstraction in your work. How do you find a balance? What separates these GIFs from traditional landscape imagery is their distortion and dreamlike, trippy quality. At this point, experimentation and trial-and-error play a major role. Behind the works I share publicly lies a massive graveyard of GIFs, many of them containing strange AI-generated anomalies that I personally find fascinating but that are often too abstract or difficult to interpret. From this archive, I select the works that retain enough recognizability to connect with viewers. Experimentation and patience are essential parts of my process. Over time, experience has allowed me to develop workflows that feel relatively stable, but that does not mean I stop experimenting. ![13.gif](https://d3e0luujhwn38u.cloudfront.net/original/img/original/24584/af47c209-a577-418f-a4ac-c6cc34ea86d1.gif) *** 6. Can you walk us through your creative workflow in "Morphland Abstractions?" My process begins with creating and training models. When I first started making glitch art years ago, I would simply apply effects to photographs I had taken. Following a similar philosophy, I created datasets using simple glitch imagery to train AI systems. After refining those aesthetics into something more sophisticated, I use the resulting imagery to train locally-run AI models for a second stage, creating a more personalized workflow. The next phase focuses on movement. I developed motion patterns inspired by classic glitch behaviors such as datamoshing and build the composition around those movements. This produces a raw animated GIF generated locally. From there, I edit the work in Photoshop, adjusting colors and enhancing its psychedelic qualities. I then export the frames individually. Using Processing 4, I apply dithering and additional glitch processes to those exported frames. After several rounds of processing and refinement, the final GIF is complete. ![7.gif](https://d3e0luujhwn38u.cloudfront.net/original/img/original/24584/af9a5326-8eba-4db7-994f-9ca91c289407.gif) *** 7. As a writer, worldbuilder and visual artist, how do you approach narrative in your glitchscapes? Is there a story underlying these abstract anomalies? As I mentioned earlier, color palettes represent entire worlds. In the past, viewers wandered through *Phantasmagoria*; now they are exploring *Morphland*. The narrative framework of *Morphland Abstractions* revolves around anomalies. Behind the landscapes we see, I imagine unseen entities that are responsible for these disturbances. Much like planets orbiting around a massive black hole, the environments are shaped by invisible forces that create extraordinary atmospheric and geological phenomena. Even though we never see these entities directly, their supernatural influence can be felt throughout the landscape. What exactly are these entities? That may become the subject of my next project. ![9.gif](https://d3e0luujhwn38u.cloudfront.net/original/img/original/24584/2ffd75cc-a044-478b-9e6e-59c2139cf952.gif) *** 8. These surreal landscapes feel simultaneously alien and strangely familiar. What do you hope viewers experience or contemplate when encountering Morphland Abstractions? I hope viewers spend time examining the works closely, especially at their original scale. One of the things I would like them to notice is how every pixel appears to move as if it possesses its own awareness, all within a seamless looping structure. I hope they explore those small details and observe the behavior of the individual visual elements that make up the larger composition. ![2.gif](https://d3e0luujhwn38u.cloudfront.net/original/img/original/24584/e65300f9-cb9f-4cc3-ac97-353f35397d2d.gif) *** 9. AI tools are evolving extremely quickly. Does this excite you, worry you, or both? How do you stay grounded in your own vision when the technological landscape keeps shifting? AI tools will continue to evolve, but I remain most interested in highly experimental and customizable models. I am especially drawn to systems that can be integrated into environments like TouchDesigner, where artists can build their own workflows and processes. I am still a huge admirer of older experimental AI models. As the field matures, many of those experimental approaches are gradually disappearing, replaced by increasingly standardized and optimized systems. I will probably continue exploring the aesthetics and unpredictability of those earlier models, while also finding ways to carry their spirit into newer technologies. ![4.gif](https://d3e0luujhwn38u.cloudfront.net/original/img/original/24584/ed9defa3-01e7-4f7a-8f0d-ac0f710fad84.gif) *** 10. Where do you see your work going in the next few years? Are there new themes, techniques, or technologies you're eager to explore? I plan to continue creating seamless, psychedelic looping GIFs. One of my goals is to develop multi-composition works that allow for more extensive worldbuilding and narrative connections between individual pieces. I also want to expand beyond GIFs into video-based works. While many people know me primarily for my trippy GIFs, I also work with music videos, analog glitch art, abstract glitch art, video art, and generative art. Moving forward, I am interested in bringing all of these disciplines together and creating hybrid works that combine the techniques and ideas I have developed across different mediums. ![19.gif](https://d3e0luujhwn38u.cloudfront.net/original/img/original/24584/7f1364bc-cc7e-451a-a27d-d25af3a33c20.gif) *** 🔗Discover @endless_mazin's "Morphland Abstractions" collection on DAILY here: https://daily.xyz/exhibition/morphland-abstractions-by-mazin